Security Architect

Navy Mutual Aid Association; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Navy Mutual Aid Association is seeking a security architecture leader to develop and maintain enterprise security processes, align solutions with business needs, and drive compliance with industry norms.

The role involves coordinating audits, managing security administration for IT projects, and creating strategy plans and artifacts to strengthen security posture across the organization. A focus on IAM, OS hardening, and disaster recovery is essential to success.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains security architecture process aligned with business, tech and threat drivers
• Collaborates with staff to audit and address information security standards; migrate non-compliant environments to compliant
• Informs and conducts security audits to ensure standards and currency with industry norms
• Manages security administration planning for IT projects; recommends changes to strengthen security measures
• Develops security strategy plans and roadmaps based on enterprise architecture practices
• Maintains security architecture artifacts (models, templates, standards, procedures) for projects and operations
• Sets baseline security configuration standards for OS hardening, network segmentation, and IAM
• Participates in design and execution of backup and disaster recovery systems and contingency operations
• Creates and maintains a security training program; delivers regular security awareness training
• Maintains project software and documentation inventory and configuration baselines
• Establishes CM processes and procedures; including libraries, impact assessments, incident reports, change notices
• Identifies and implements processes to strengthen and automate build processes; advocates best practices in build automation tools
• Maintains operational configurations per baseline control efforts using automated CM tools
• Responsible for change management controls and reporting/documentation
• Manages relationships with contractors and vendors as needed
• Establishes IO C indicators taxonomy and shares with SOC, IT managers and NOC counterparts
• Other duties as assigned

Job description

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develops and maintains a security architecture process that enables the enterprise to develop and implement security solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned with business, technology and threat drivers
• Works cooperatively with all staff to meet the business and customer needs of Navy Mutual, while managing processes and methods for auditing and addressing information security standards; and facilitates migration of non-compliant environments to compliant environments
• Informs and conducts security audits within and outside the organization, to ensure compliance with standards and currency with industry security norms
• Manages and participates in the planning and implementation of security administration for all IT projects; and makes recommendations and assists in the implementation of changes to work methods and procedures to make them more effective or to strengthen security measures
• Develops security strategy plans and roadmaps based on sound enterprise architecture practices
• Develops and maintains security architecture artifacts (e.g., models, templates, standards and procedures) that can be used to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations
• Determines baseline security configuration standards for operating systems (e.g., OS hardening), network segmentation and identity and access management (IAM)
• Participate in the design and execution of the back-up disaster recovery systems, and contingency operations; and participates in systems back-up regimen as needed
• Create and maintain a security training program, and perform regular security awareness training for all employees, to educate and ensure compliance with the organization’ssecurity policies, standards, and procedures
• Responsible for maintaining project software and documentation inventory and configuration baselines
• Establishes and maintains all CM processes and procedures; including library and software development information, impact assessments, incident reports, and software change notices, etc.; on a continuous basis
• Identifies and implements processes to strengthen, streamline and automate build processes; and serve as an advocate for best practices to drive the development and maintenance of build automation tools
• Maintain operational configurations of all in-place solutions as per the established baseline control efforts, using automated CM tools
• Responsible for change management controls and reporting/documentation
• Manage relationships with contractors and vendors as needed
• Establishes a taxonomy of indicators of compromise (IOCs) and share this detail with other security colleagues, including the security operations center (SOC), information security managers and analysts, as well as counterparts within the network operations center (NOC)
• Other duties as assigned